This is not just a moral issue, not just a economic issue, it is also an urgent matter of our national security. (daveberta.ca)
In 1994 the Congress saw, as matter of national security, to outlaw the sale of assault rifles, because the they saw no purpose in civilians owning weapons with the singular purpose of killing other civilians and their design made it possible to too easily convert these weapons to fully automatic operation. (lawyer-monthly.com)
Writing extra-judicially, Lord Justice Brown once described the typical court approach on matters of national security as follows: «the mere incantation of the phrase [national security] of itself instantly discourages the court from satisfactorily fulfilling... (asser.nl)